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• Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
• There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade -… — Margaret E. Knight
• In the ancient world individuals have sold themselves as slaves, in order to eat. So in society. Here is a witch-doctor who… — C.S. Lewis
• Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to… — Stephen Jay Gould
• What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful… — Benjamin Disraeli
• Gratitude is not a spiritual or moral dessert which we may take or push away according to the whims of the moment,… — Unknown Author
• The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but… — Adolf Hitler
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